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Philadelphia, PA 19103
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THOMAS MORE MARRONE
  Phone: (215) 567-8300
Fax: (215) 599-1431
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Practice Areas:
Class Actions
Consumer Protection
Professional Negligence
Insurance Bad Faith
Personal Injury
Toxic Substances

  
Biography

For more than 20 years, Tom Marrone has creatively, aggressively, and successfully represented individuals in a variety of complex civil litigation matters, especially class actions, catastrophic personal injury claims, insurance coverage and bad faith claims, attorney malpractice, wrongful use of civil proceedings, HMO liability, product liability, and appellate advocacy. He has served as court-approved class counsel in cutting edge class actions involving, among others, privacy issues, insurance, HMO liability, fraud, consumer protection, and toxic substances. Tom heads the firm's Complex Litigation and Class Action group.

A member of Million Dollar Advocates Forum, Tom has instructed other lawyers on class action litigation and on sophisticated insurance coverage matters, and has argued a number of cases before Pennsylvania’s appellate courts. He is a member of the Philadelphia and New York Bar Associations, the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association, and Pennsylvania and American Associations for Justice.

Thomas More MarroneTom Marrone has been recognized as a Class Action/Mass Tort Super Lawyer® by Thomson Reuters, published annually in Philadelphia magazine, and as one of the Lawdragon 3000 Leading Plaintiff's Lawyers in America. He has also been selected as a member of The National Trial Lawyers, a professional organization of America's top trial lawyers. Tom has earned a peer review rated "AV" by Martindale-Hubbell. According to Martindale-Hubbell this rating indicates "the highest level of legal ability and ethics. The pinnacle of processional excellence."

Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Tom received his undergraduate and law degrees from Villanova University, and is a Fellow of the Academy of Advocacy of Temple University, an intensive trial "boot camp" under the tutelage of premier trial lawyers and eminent judges.

Along with others in the firm, Tom is committed to providing legal services to those who cannot afford to pay a lawyer, and he maintains an active portfolio of pro bono matters from, among others, Philadelphia Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts.

Tom Marrone is admitted to practice in the State and Federal courts of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, the State of New York, and before the Supreme Court of the United States.

Tom's recent successes include:

  • Negotiating a $1 million dollar settlement on behalf of shop maintenance workers, after obtaining conditional certification of a collective (class) action in a nationwide Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) case against Ryder Truck Rental, Inc. arising out of the log-in process that Ryder's more than 8,500 shop maintenance workers must use when beginning their shifts. The United States District Court fo the Eastern District of Pennsylvania has approved the settlement.

  • Obtaining Superior Court reversal of dismissal of class action against Nieman Marcus alleging unlawful imposition of sales tax on tax-exempt purchases.

  • Unanimous Pennsylvania Supreme Court affirmance of class certification and summary judgment in a class action alleging medical record overbilling.

  • Summary judgment and a $2 million dollar settlement in a claim for wrongful use of civil proceedings under Pennsylvania's Dragonetti Act.

  • A substantial settlement against the Archdiocese of Philadelphia for catastrophic injuries suffered by a freshman football player during practice.

  • Class certification and settlement of a class action against the Philadelphia Gas Works for testing thousands of homes for mercury following PGW’s removal of gas regulators.

  • Settlements in wage and hour class actions.

  • Seven figure settlements in two class actions arising from well water contamination.

Bar Admissions

  • Pennsylvania
  • New Jersey
  • New York
  • U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
  • U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
  • Supreme Court of the United States

Education

  • Academy of Advocacy of Temple University, Fellow, 1998
  • Villanova University School of Law, J.D., 1987
  • Villanova University, B.A., 1984

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